NSX-T that can provide network virtualization for a multi-cloud and multi-hypervisor environment. NSX-V (NSX for vSphere) Manager integrates into vCenter and leverages the vSphere dvSwitch. NSX-T Manager can be used with vSphere but does not integrate with vCenter or dvSwitch, instead NSX Manager is managed its API and the Transport Zone creates a hostswitch on each host.

I am tasked with working with VMware again for now, it seems like a good opportunity to try and manage the infrastructrure configuration as code as we do with AWS. My former colleagues had made me aware of pyVmomi an open source library which VMware provide and mostly maintain for managing vSphere, so its here I shall start. Since then NSX for vSphere has also an open source library NSX RAML Client provided by VMware so I’ll then move to that.

The goal of this post is to walk through the creation of a AWS test environment which I use to explore the Python SDK interactions with DyanmoDB. For learning I use the free tier and so used to create the environment as needed manually. After doing this once I decided to encapsulate the configuration in a Cloud Formations template and then deploy the stack when I needed it.

One common critisism of Agile teams is they are architecturally weak and disconnected from the operational realities of complex enterprise environments. Traditional enterprise architecture processes are viewed focusing on delivering documentation rather than delivering a working solution, slow, and focussed on delivering monolith design rather than continuous delivery of small incremental updates.